Poll: Repair or not
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Leave the damn thing alone! Don't mess with what looks like a period repair
54.55%
12 54.55%
Have the solder removed to make the serial number readable
40.91%
9 40.91%
Repair the enamel only
0%
0 0%
Remove the solder AND repair the enamel
4.55%
1 4.55%
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Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents.
deValcourt Wrote:Thanks Marc. I had heard rumors about the gold as well as other not-so-pleasant additives such as blood - so it just goes to show how the more extravagent the story, the faster it spreads.

The funniest thing to me though is that the color sounds like an expensive perfume.:chuckle

Phillip

No CSI needed. I believe it's more about where the gold may have come than anything else. The blood content would be figurative in the enamel, but literal in the mining operations in the Kolyma GULAG camps. It's too sad for emoticons.
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Damaged, Repair, Clean, Preserve Soviet Awards And Documents. - by Kirchgoens - 03-01-2010, 05:32 PM

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